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BARKER, Joseph (1806-1875)

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Born: 1806

Died: 1875

Editorial Description

preacher, publisher and controversialist; wool-spinner imprisoned in 1848 for Chartist activity; toured America in 1850s; founded and edited The People, a penny journal dedicated to "Phrenology, Teetotalism, Theological Reform, Dietetics ... and all that contributes to the free and full development of the whole human being and of the whole human family"; popularized the works of the "phrenological FOWLERS" in Britain. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

61.1 — 61.1 "The Soul; Phrenology, etc," The People, No 25 (1848): 199.
61.2 — 61.2 "Phrenology," The People, No 35 (1848): 280, 297-8. (An outline and endorsement.)
61.3 — 61.3 "The Works of O. S. Fowler, the American Phrenologist and Physiologist," The People, No 37 (1849): 291.
61.4 — 61.4 "Phrenology [leader article mostly comprised of extracts from A. BRIGHAM'S work on Insanity]," The People, No 38 (1849): 297-8.

Editorial Information

Identifier	61.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	25
Printed page	20
Database ID	186

Original Transcription

61. BARKER, Joseph (1806-75), preacher, publisher and controversialist; wool-spinner imprisoned in 1848 for Chartist activity; toured
America in 1850s; founded and edited The People, a penny journal
dedicated to "Phrenology, Teetotalism, Theological Reform, Dietetics
... and all that contributes to the free and full development of the
whole human being and of the whole human family"; popularized the
works of the "phrenological FOWLERS" in Britain. (DNB)